Cycling Festival 2014 will take place in Ljubljana between 23 and 25 May 2014. The central event will be on Saturday, 24 May 2014 in Congress Square.

In the morning of Friday, 23 May 2014, the main focus will be on the discussion entitled “Cycling in Slovenian Cities – Challenges and Opportunities!” held in the City Hall, while the afternoon will be reserved for a guided cycling tour showing good and bad practices of cycling traffic and infrastructure management and the bicycle parade of old-timers. The first festival day will conclude with the screening of the motion picture Jour de Fête (The Big Day) at 19.00 in Kinoteka.

The central event will be on Saturday, 24 May 2014. In the morning the visitors of Congress Square will be offered a display of various bicycles, cycling equipment, literature, accessories, tourist offer, etc. They will also be able to try out different bikes at the skill park and test their knowledge in prize quiz on the cycling-related topics. There will be bicycle self-repair and recycling workshops, painting of bicycle helmets and a guided tour displaying the industrial heritage of Ljubljana. Visitors will be also invited to make contributions to the Katarina Šabić Cycling Fund to build a maternity hospital at the Akamasoa mission in Madagascar. In the afternoon, the similar programme will continue in BTC in front of the Hall A. The festival will conclude at 19.00 in the Eipper Street with the »open-air cycling coffee-shop« discussing the bicycle as a business opportunity in Ljubljana.

On Sunday, 25 May 2014 at 12.00 at the Slovenian Technical Museum in Bistra, the guided tour presenting the bicycle collection will be organised. Members and supporters of the LKM, Muslauf and TD Rekreatur associations can start a trip at 9.30 from Breg and make a shortcut to Podpeč by boat. The Cycling Festival will conclude at 19.00 with the screening of the movie Wadjda at the Kinodvor cinema and documentaries and promotional movies about cycling in the urban cycling subcultures at the Kino Šiška Centre.

The whole programme organised by REC Slovenia in the scope of “On Bike You Can Get Far!” campaign is available at the following link.